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x = 33, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
24b2o5b2o$24b2o5b2o2$22b3o2b2o$27b2o4$4b2o3bo$4b2o3bo8bo$9bo8bobo$2o5b
2o9b3o$2o5b2o11bo!
Doesn't the axiom work - turning right three times becomes turning left?
Cool! A difficult axiom! The correct answer is 3 times in one direction and one cell up. Damn! Awesome! This error is the fuel of continuous surface spaceships.
Various programmable universal construction arms can shoot in all directions, one at a time -- or it could build and trigger a seed that produces any number of outputs simultaneously.
Technically they could do that for more than eight directions ... but unfortunately the spaceships that we currently know how to construct, that travel in directions other than cardinal or inter-cardinal, are all doubleplusunsmall.
The glider and HWSS guns are connected by tying fumaroles together, and by welding two eaters as an elevener.
I challenge someone to find a smaller gun (of any period) by bounding box (this one is 118x118, or 13924 cells) which:
- Fires spaceships in 8 unique directions.
- Can be considered to be a single gun, rather than a constellation of guns.
- Repeats with the same period as the spaceship streams (For example, you could not use GGGs for diagonal spaceships and p80 HWSS guns for the orthogonal spaceships, and you cannot use pseudo-period guns).
- Is not pointlessly over-densified.
PK22 wrote: August 1st, 2025, 6:31 am
I challenge someone to find a smaller gun (of any period) by bounding box (this one is 118x118, or 13924 cells) which:
- Fires spaceships in 8 unique directions.
- Can be considered to be a single gun, rather than a constellation of guns.
- Repeats with the same period as the spaceship streams (For example, you could not use GGGs for diagonal spaceships and p80 HWSS guns for the orthogonal spaceships, and you cannot use pseudo-period guns).
- Is not pointlessly over-densified.
That should be possible with some conduits, but I'm not sure about whether it would be smaller.
PK22 wrote: August 1st, 2025, 6:31 am
I challenge someone to find a smaller gun (of any period) by bounding box (this one is 118x118, or 13924 cells) which:
- Fires spaceships in 8 unique directions.
- Can be considered to be a single gun, rather than a constellation of guns...
Wouldn't you know -- I tried the obvious option, and got 119x119 (really a little bigger in other phases) -- period 256, and this phase is 569 live cells (but that's not a standard comparison point for guns):
Haven't looked for a way to get a pi and glider out of the Herschel factories quicker -- or maybe there's some other trick to get an LWSS or MWSS with the help of sparkers.
x = 237, y = 159, rule = B3/S23
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$191b2o5b2o2$162bo31b2o$162bo31b2o$42bo119bo$43bo$41b3o2$185bo$185bob
o$185b3o$187bo4$160b2o$66bo93b2o$38bo27bo$38bo27bo89b2o5b2o$38bo117b2o
5b2o4$61bo$61bobo$61b3o134b2o$63bo134bobo$198bo3$36b2o$36b2o2$32b2o5b
2o$32b2o5b2o5$202b2o$74b2o126bobo$74bobo125bo$74bo12$78b2o$78bobo$78b
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I tried to replace three blocks with a single flasher. But I only proved to myself that it's impossible. It's some kind of transformation within the zero quadrant. However, the initial point is not in the middle of the zero quadrant's side, as I assumed.
I also read about the term "seed," which refers to selecting any pattern (or part of a pattern) in the middle of a mufosolin's life cycle and comparing it with other mufosols. It's like moving the start (or finish) to the middle (random position between) of the life cycle.
Sober ABC wrote: August 2nd, 2025, 7:01 am
I think I've matured and made my own gun, a shotgun! Eh? It's just a sniper scopes. Or is it a double-barreled shotgun!
The only possible antiphase... Well, and a lot of following synchronic positions.
This gun has four barrels, not two.
It is easy to make welds of guns, just like still lifes. Strictly speaking, you'll need a search program to "mature".
LuveelVoom wrote: August 2nd, 2025, 10:15 am
Why would this be the case? There are many other things one could do in CA that do not require a search program
I mean, only in B3/S23.
I had made major contributions to OCA, but never made any notable discoveries in Life because I couldn't manage to run scripts.
Sober ABC also stated that (s)he isn't interested in OCA.
Oh yes, running scripts is a big problem. And I finally understood what OCA means. They sent me a script for translating words... And they hid the sensors from me for a very long time. When I was learning to program (Turbo Search), there were no touch screens. And the libraries for graphical Pascal cost money. In short, it was impossible to program for free on the internet or for the internet. But now Scratch has appeared, and your forum is programming and automating text into code for free. I've been waiting for this for a long time! And I waited! But I still can't run the scripts. How is it? Why... The public suddenly becomes... In short! Changing the initial rules is not programming. The lack of an end goal in programming is coding. Coding in the bad sense of the word.
Why change the starting rules of a cellular automaton? Why does society, most people, make such an effort to become anonymous (or a hacker in the bad sense - to break anonymity)? After all, this is... To astonish... Well, I don't know how to put it...
AFTERWORD. P.S. I managed to make the glider turn 90 degrees on its own. All that's left is to remove... After the turn, make sure all the MDG-seeds are planted.
Sober ABC, what device are you using, and if it is a computer, what operating system? We can probably find a program which you can run that produces interesting results.
If you have a laptop, that’s great - you should be able to run a search program!
I still need to know the operating system - is it Windows, Linux, or something else?
There are also things you can do without a search program:
1. Combine objects that already exist. For example, the way I found Raucci's p38 was by looking through a database called jslife and seeing what worked with the traffic stop that was found a few months earlier. Similarly, the p15 glider gun and p16 glider gun were simply found by combining known components, and 66P62 was another application of a phase-shifting reaction that was known on a p7 and p12 but was forgotten for years.
2. Create databases. Existing databases include most common active regions, most common catalysts, all soups that fit within 6×6, all combinations of an R, a block/blinker, and another block/blinker, etc. While this requires coding, I wouldn't call it a search. There are probably other useful databases that could be created; I mentioned "catalysts except they shift by one cell" in the spaceship discussion thread two hours ago, or you could do "what are the most common ways for a beehive to form, by percentage" (e.g. alone, honey farm, teardrop, butterfly, etc.) or "most likely ways for a block to survive being hit by a random soup".
3. Glider syntheses, while they require experience, are mostly manual rather than via search.
PK22 wrote: August 3rd, 2025, 8:29 am
If you have a laptop, that’s great - you should be able to run a search program!
I still need to know the operating system - is it Windows, Linux, or something else?
Windows 10 Pro(x64) is not activated. And because of that, it's slow... Although the laptop has weak hardware. Plus, the control panel buttons have been changed. And I need 1-1.5 hours to find the characteristics.
I remembered! The back of the laptop! The Asus x540n.
Ok, it sounds like you have Windows 10, and x64 architecture. That's excellent - it means you can run apgsearch!
You can download a precompiled version using this link, and then run the .exe file. (Windows will probably tell you that "Running this app might put your PC at risk", but it's fine - just click "More info", then "Run anyway".
I would test it first by entering 10000000 as the number of soups, '#anon' as the payosha256 key, and 4 (or however many cores your CPU has) as the number of threads to use.
Yeah, I've encountered this "too old or powerful program." I've installed AutoCAD only as an administrator. But I don't want to rush - mathematics is timeless. So I'll play with numbers for my own needs. In a 6x6 square, I'll manually encrypt all 10 numbers.
From 5 to 116 generations. The symbol of nine has the shortest life. The number 7 has the oldest life. But the question is different! Micro puzzle - what have I encoded here related to tic-tac-toe?
Sober ABC wrote: May 9th, 2025, 1:08 am
The most difficult thing is that it takes at least six alphabetic scales to create the original spiral hieroglyphs.
In principle, the average font is 5x5, but the letter Ё is the largest... That's fine. Let there be a space between the letters, but no space between the numbers.
PK22 wrote: August 4th, 2025, 4:13 am
Ok, it sounds like you have Windows 10, and x64 architecture. That's excellent - it means you can run apgsearch!
You can download a precompiled version using this link, and then run the .exe file. (Windows will probably tell you that "Running this app might put your PC at risk", but it's fine - just click "More info", then "Run anyway".
I would test it first by entering 10000000 as the number of soups, '#anon' as the payosha256 key, and 4 (or however many cores your CPU has) as the number of threads to use.
Installiert, gestartet. Und wie sehen Sie die entdeckten Muster des linearen Wachstums? Wie kann man sie sehen?